Morning Discussion
Not so with Plants vs. Zombies. This game is marvellous. Matching your plants to the zombies, terrain and time of day is surprisingly 'hardcore' for a PopCap games. Plant and zombie designs are neat too--the Michael Jackson zombie is positively sublime.
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Windows 7 is awesome
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as in it is rumored they are going to surprise us with a new UI on top of what we have been seeing in the betas and release candidate. i don't have anymore details than that....this is the internet after all and it could all be a bunch of bullshit. but, if you followed the vista process they threw the aero stuff in at the last minute....same kind of deal.
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Any suggestions on the pro antivirus choice for the RC? Takes me to this page by default. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/antivirus-partners/windows-7.aspx
I heard Norton doesnt suck anymore but its only a 2 week trial. Trying the Kaspersky one. -
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the installer is pretty smart. I installed it to the same partition as my vista installation. Chose the 'custom' option. It moved all my windows files (including program files) to a folder called Windows.old and then installed windows 7. This effectively nukes the old windows installation but lets you access all your old windows files incase you forgot to back some shit up.
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Denied! It gives you the option to upgrade, but even if you choose 'install' it just says, "There was an existing windows. I moved it to windows.old and went to town." I still have everything except my windows directory. I'm about to see what happens when I install Steam to the same place it lived before....whether I have to download all my crap again.
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Windows 7 Hotkeys
Win+Up - Maximize
Win+Down - Restore / Minimize
Win+Left - Snap to left
Win+Right - Snap to right
Win+Shift+Left - Jump to left monitor
Win+Shift+Right - Jump to right monitor
Win+Home - Minimize / Restore all other windows
Win+T - Focus the first taskbar entry. Pressing again will cycle through them, you can arrow around.
Win+Shift+T - cycles backwards.
Win+Space - Peek at the desktop
Win+G - Bring gadgets to the top of the Z-order
Win+P - External display options (mirror, extend desktop, etc)
Win+X - Mobility Center (same as Vista, but still handy!)
Win+# (# = a number key) - Launches a new instance of the application in the Nth slot on the taskbar. Example: Win+1 launches first pinned app, Win+2 launches second, etc.
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Windows 7 audio tip:
By default, Windows 7 will decrease the volume of applications and games by 80% if it detects "communications activity". This can be frustrating in a game like Left 4 Dead or Counterstrike where the voice channel is detected, and you can't figure out why your in-game volume is so low and tinny.
To correct this, go to Control Panel, Hardware and Sound, Sound, the Communications tab, and choose "Do Nothing".
I spent all weekend wondering why my Source game sessions were so much quieter than the rest of my system sounds.-
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i would be playing TF2 and the Valve Guy splash screen sound would be LOUD, and then in-game i could barely hear any effects
i was worried sound was just fucked for my onboard chip and that i'd have to go back to XP :( happily, i discovered this "feature", which i guess would be okay in some desktop apps, but certainly not games
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easy install
Intel SSD 7.7 on HD performance
www.sphinx-soft.com for free firewall upgrade (annoying wav file, just overwrite)
EVEOnline runs great
Logitech Internet Navigator keyboard (no drivers so no volume control, yet) -
ugh has anyone installed the 64-bit version via bootcamp with any success? it installs fine but when I try and install the windows device drivers from the OSX CD it says that bootcamp x64 is unsupported on this model computer. wtf I have a unibody MacBook, is it freaking out about Win7 or the computer? the 32-bit beta install worked great :(
it runs fine but no multitouch and I can't seem to eject anything from the DVD drive :( I installed some drivers individually (like the nvidia ones) but it's pretty hit and miss :(-
I couldn't get them installed on the 32 bit version (in beta1 either). I'd posted about it multiple times with no success. I guess I must not have tried the DVD drive but the trackpad is definitely worthless, no way to right click at all. Of course, even with the drivers Apple's trackpad doesn't work well in Windows so using an external mouse is much better.
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Exactly the same here.. I posted about it 2 days ago http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=19838221#itemanchor_19838221
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I like the desktop wallpaper slide show setting. no more getting bored of the same background. you can also right click the desktop and pick the next one if you don't want to wait the 30 minutes or hour or whatever.
It's the little things!
Also, be sure to grab the hidden backgrounds for the various region specific themes, some of them are pretty rad:
http://www.blogsdna.com/1828/unlock-unhide-windows-7-hidden-themes-for-regional-countries.htm-
http://www.2shared.com/file/5664867/6986f2f7/W7BG.html
zipped and uploaded these images for those who are lazy or don't have windows 7, lower right "click here" to download.
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HELP
I assume the blue and yellow shield icon has something to do with UAC or admin privileges. But I'm using an admin account and when I click something with that icon next to it, nothing happens. I don't get any confirmation dialog or anything. I can't turn off UAC because that has the shield next to it.
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